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Treating intellectual property as an investment, and subjecting it to treaty arbitration, can have undesirable impact
Economic Times | 19-Apr-2017
Free trade agreements tend to treat intellectual property as an investment made by investor corporations, allowing private investment disputes to be raised against the host country.
keywords: India , intellectual property , investment | BITs , investor-state disputes | ISDS , RCEP
El Salvador freezes OceanaGold bank accounts, assets over $8 mln payment
Reuters | 19-Apr-2017
El Salvador froze bank accounts and assets belonging to OceanaGold Corp after the mining company refused to pay the country $8 million as mandated by an international court.
keywords: CAFTA , El Salvador , investor-state disputes | ISDS , mining , US
Venezuela: Pdvsa bajo ataque legal
El Mundo | 18-Apr-2017
Transnacionales petroleras buscan ahogar a la estatal por medio de varias acciones.
keywords: energy , investor-state disputes | ISDS , Venezuela
Accord commercial UE-Mexique en révision : l’UE veut expédier les négociations malgré les risques
AITEC | 18-Apr-2017
L’objectif de ces nouvelles négociations est d’amener l’instrument commercial liant l’UE et le Mexique au niveau des accords commerciaux comme le CETA, référence désormais brandie par la Commission européenne pour l’ensemble de ses négociations futures.
keywords: EU , intellectual property , investor-state disputes | ISDS , Mexico , public procurement , services , TBT
Le conflit s’aggrave entre Veolia et Vilnius
Le Figaro | 14-Apr-2017
Veolia et la ville de Vilnius (Lituanie) se poursuivent devant des tribunaux d’arbitrage internationaux.
keywords: energy , France , investor-state disputes | ISDS , Lithuania
Is it time to redesign or terminate investor-state arbitration?
CIGI | 14-Apr-2017
A clean break is needed to restore trust, but these stiff tests must be met.
keywords: ICSID , investor-state disputes | ISDS , ISDS reform
Ontario coughs up $28M to wind power company
The Whig | 14-Apr-2017
The Ontario government says it has paid a $28-million award that a NAFTA tribunal ruled was owed to a wind power company over a provincial offshore wind moratorium.
keywords: Canada , energy , investor-state disputes | ISDS , NAFTA | USMCA , US
La española Lidercón solicita arbitraje contra Perú ante Ciadi
CIAR Global | 14-Apr-2017
El grupo empresarial español Lidercón ha presentado una demanda de arbitraje ante el Ciadi, contra Perú invocando el Tratado Bilateral de Inversiones España-Perú de 1994 por un conflicto relacionado con un contrato por la inspección técnica de vehículos en Lima y Callao.
keywords: ICSID , investor-state disputes | ISDS , Peru , Spain
El TLCAN 2.0 es acerca del control, no del libre comercio
El Financiero | 14-Apr-2017
Un tema que no ha sido analizado a profundidad son las nuevas disposiciones que serán agregadas al texto del tratado en materia de medio ambiente, laboral, sindical, propiedad intelectual, entre otros.
keywords: CPTPP , intellectual property , investor-state disputes | ISDS , NAFTA | USMCA
Novartis pointé du doigt en Colombie
AGEFI | 13-Apr-2017
Le géant bâlois est accusé d’avoir "menacé" le ministère colombien du Commerce et de l’Industrie de recourir à un tribunal d’arbitrage international.
keywords: Colombia , intellectual property , investor-state disputes | ISDS , medicines , Switzerland